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It’s 50 years since Indigenous Australians first ‘counted’. Why has so little changed?

In 1967 Australia voted in a landmark referendum to finally include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in its census.

But, as Paul Daley reports, the fight for genuine equality for the country’s first people is far from over

Eke 2bSol Bellear, a former rugby league player for South Sydney Rabbitohs and Aboriginal rights activist, sits in the soft autumn sunshine at a cafe intersecting Redfern Park and the oval that remains the spiritual home of his beloved…

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